Marking International Day, Secretary-General Stresses ‘In Our World of Plenty, Poverty Should Have No Home’, Calls for Renewed Commitment to Achieve SDGs
Stories & Blogs UNOct 06, 2023(Press Release )“In our world of plenty, poverty should have no home. Yet, as we mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, nearly 700 million people are barely scraping by, living on less than $2.15 per day” UN Secretary-General António Guterres .
Local and Regional Engagement, Action and Multi-Level Cooperation Are Vital to Rescue SDGs and Contribute to Topics under the Summit of Future
Stories & Blogs UNOct 06, 2023(Press Release )UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched his Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments, through its first hybrid meeting among its 20 members.
Keep Your Promise to People: UN Secretary-General's Remarks at the 2023 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
Stories & Blogs UNSDGSep 18, 2023(News )“At the halfway point to the SDG deadline, the eyes of the world are on you once again”, Antonio Guteres.
Sustainable Development Goals Require Global Rescue Plan, Secretary-General Tells Political Forum, Hailing Effort to Improve Developing Nations’ Access to Finance
Stories & Blogs UNSep 18, 2023(Press Release )“We can prevail. If we act now. If we act together. If we keep our promise to the billions of people whose hopes, dreams and futures you hold in your hands. Now is the time’ Said Antonio Guterres.
Non-renewal of Measures Imposed by Security Council Resolution 2374 (2017) concerning Mali.
Stories & Blogs UN Security CouncilSep 18, 2023(Press Release )The Secretariat has removed from the United Nations website the list of the eight individuals on the 2374 Sanctions List.
Think Big, Be Ambitious ‘to Get Sustainable Development Goals Back on Track’, Stresses Secretary-General, Opening Acceleration Day.
Stories & Blogs UNSep 17, 2023(Press Release )“You are all part of a great global effort to rescue the SDGs, and deliver the action that our planet and people around the world are counting on. But right now, we are losing the fight” Antonio Guterres.
Better Data ‘Indispensable Scaffolding That Supports Progress across All Sustainable Development Goals, Stresses Deputy Secretary-General.
Stories & Blogs UNSep 17, 2023(Press Release )“Our world is confronting a cascade of crises that are undermining hard-won development gains and threatening lives and livelihoods everywhere” Amina Mohammed.
Supercharging Progress Towards the SDGs With Better Data
Stories & Blogs UNOPSJul 31, 2023(News )Geographic Information Systems may just be a secret ingredient to accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Less than 1% of women and girls live in a country with high women’s empowerment and high gender parity
Stories & Blogs UNSDGJul 18, 2023(News )The report sees UN Women and UNDP join forces to propose the Women's Empowerment Index (WEI) and the Global Gender Parity Index (GGPI) as the twin indices for measuring gender parity and women’s empowerment.
“Energy from Africa for Africa”
Stories & Blogs UNIDOMar 30, 2023(News )Africa is home to more than 1.3 billion people and has significant natural resources, yet the continent only generates 3% of global GDP and 2% of global manufacturing added value.